About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

● 1648 - Birth of Robert Barclay, Scottish Quaker theologian. He published his most famous work, "An Apology for the True Christian Divinity," in 1676, making him the most prominent theologian in the early Quaker Church.

● 1783 - George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland. George Washington then returned home to Mount Vernon, after the disbanding of his army following the Revolutionary War.

● 1788 - Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the seat of the national government. About two-thirds of the area became the District of Columbia.

● 1790 - Birth of Jean Francois Champollion, French Egyptologist. In 1822 he successfully decoded the hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone (uncovered in 1799), and is recognized today as the founder of modern Egyptology.

● 1793 - Thomas Jefferson warned of slave revolts in West Indies

● 1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore (" 'Twas the night before Christmas...") was published.

● 1841 - Birth of Handley C.G. Moule, Anglican theologian. He succeeded B.F. Westcott in 1901 as Bishop of Durham. A profound scholar, he could nevertheless speak and write for ordinary people, and published commentaries on nearly all of Paul's letters in the New Testament.

● 1852 - The Theatre of Celestial John opened on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, CA. It was the first Chinese theatre in the U.S.

● 1862 - Birth of Amos R. Wells, American Christian educator. He was first editorial secretary of the newly organized Christian Endeavor Society (forerunner of modern church "youth fellowships") from 1891 until his death in 1933.

● 1867 - Sarah Breedlove Walker, the American businesswoman and philanthropist considered to be the first black female millionaire , was born.

● 1948 - Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed by hanging in at Sugamo Prison Tokyo. They had been found guilty of crimes against humanity at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

● 1950 - U.S. signs an agreement with France, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to provide military assistance in Indochina.

● 1950 - Pope Pius XII declared that the tomb of St. Peter had been discovered beneath St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

● 1951 - A National Football League (NFL) championship game was televised nationally for the first time. The Los Angeles Rams beat the Cleveland Browns 24-17. The DuMont Network had paid $75,000 for the rights to the game.

● 1951 - Last Belgian communities get electricity

● 1953 - Soviet secret police chief Lavrenti Beria and six of his associates were shot for treason following a secret trial.

● 1964 - Beeching to leave British Railways; Dr Richard Beeching who instigated major and controversial changes to the rail network will quit, says the government.

● 1964 - India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed

● 1965 - A 70-mph speed limit was introduced in Britain.

● 1966 - Fervently pro-war Catholic Cardinal Spellman arrives in Vietnam for a five-day Christmas visit, stating U.S. troops were there for the "defense, protection, and salvation not only of our country, but...of civilization itself." Apparently, Shrub was listening.

● 1967 - Lyndon B Johnson meets Pope Paul VI at the Vatican

● 1967 - Brussels: NATO-Council accept "Flexible Response" - strategy

● 1968 - 1st documented US case of space motion sickness

● 1968 - Eighty-two crewmembers of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo were released by North Korea, 11 months after they had been captured.

● 1970 - The North Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,368 feet (411 m), making it the tallest building in the world.

● 1970 - USSR performs nuclear test

● 1972 - About 350 anti-war protesters march through stores in the downtown Seattle shopping district.

● 1972 - Australian Labour Party elected government, defeating the 23-year-old Liberal-Country Party Coalition.

● 1972 - The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Oakland Raiders 13-7 in an NFL playoff game on a last-second play that was dubbed the "Immaculate Reception." Pittsburgh's Franco Harris caught a deflected pass and ran it in for the winning touchdown.

● 1972 - All 16 survivors of the October 13 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 are rescued after 70 days, survived by cannibalism.

● 1972 - The Nicaraguan capital of Managua is struck by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, killing more than 10,000.

● 1973 - 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices

● 1973 - French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed

● 1975 - The Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes of Maine win a court decision upholding principle that the U.S. has an obligation to protect the land rights of all tribes, whether recognized by the federal government or not.

● 1982 - The Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.

● 1983 - Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter

● 1986 - Sakharov comes in from the cold; The Soviet Union's most prominent dissident, Andrei Sakharov, has returned to Moscow after almost seven years of internal exile.

● 1986 - Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California and becomes the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without refueling.

● 1987 - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ford in 1975, escaped from the Alderson Federal Prison for Women in West Virginia. She was recaptured two days later.

● 1989 - Ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were captured as they were attempting to flee their country.

● 1990 - Elections in Yugoslavia ended, leaving four of its six republics with non-Communist governments.

● 1990 - History of Slovenia: 88% of Slovenia's population vote for independence from Yugoslavia in a referendum.

● 1991 - Prayers for peace in all churches, but a planned interfaith peace rally is banned by Yugoslavian authorities.

● 1991 - New York Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns

● 1992 - France: The "Journal Officiel" publishes the abrogation of the "laws scolorates," adopted between December 12, 1893 and July 28, 1894, following Auguste Vaillant's attack on the Chamber of Deputies, which were designed to repress anarchists throughout the country.

● 1992 - Queen's Christmas speech leaked; The BBC investigates a leak which led to the Queen's Christmas speech being published in a national newspaper.

● 1995 - A fire in Dabwali, India, killed 540 people, including 170 children, during a year-end party being held near the children's school.

● 1995 - The bodies of 16 members of the Solar Temple religious sect were found in a clearing near Grenoble, France. Fourteen were presumed shot by two people who then committed suicide.

● Roman Catholic● St. O Emmanuel● St. John Cantius (John of Kanty)● St. Thorlac Thorhallsson, patron saint of Iceland● St. Servulus● St. Victoria● St. Vintila● St. Theodulus● St. Dagobert II● St. John Cantius● Martyrs of Crete● St. Nicholas Factor● St. Migdonius & Mardonius

● Roman festivals:● Larentalia, a festival in honor of Larenta

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 10 (Civil Date: December 23)● Nativity Fast.● Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus of Alexandria● St. Ioasaph, Bishop of Belgorod (also 4 September).● Martyr Gemellus of Paphlagonia.● St. Thomas of Bithynia.● Blessed John, king of Serbia, and his parents Stephen and Angelina Brancovich.

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